MSc Cyber Security and Human Factors

Course details Core units Cyber Security: Develop skills and knowledge for cyber security. Material, lectures and seminars in this unit capture concepts of cyberspace ecosystems and the security of socio-technical systems. The unit also covers the life cycle of cyber security mechanisms, including the design, development, management and, most importantly, how they're sustained. Unit leader: Dr Ioannis Askoxylakis Dates 18-21 Jan 2017 Human Factors: Soft systems, human factors integration (HFI), training, trust, organisational learning, information and knowledge management will be examined through case study analysis. You'll also conduct situational awareness and workload measurements in trials, experiments and exercises, and apply user experience (UX) techniques to evaluate interactive systems. Unit leader: Dr Huseyin Dogan Dates 14-17 Sep 2016 Research Methods & Professional Issues: Research requires a structured and disciplined approach at all stages. We'll help you to develop key research skills in many areas from project proposals and planning to critical analysis of research findings, academic writing and dissemination. We'll also teach you about professional standards and ethical issues for research. Unit leader: Dr Raian Ali Dates 7-10 Sep 2016; 17-20 May 2017 Individual Masters Project: An opportunity to critically investigate and report on a particular issue in-depth. Option units Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year. You'll choose three of the following: Cyber Psychology: Explore the impact of the internet and social media applications on individuals, groups, organisations and society, and human factors relevant to cyber security and online behaviours. You'll learn to evaluate the principal features of human factors in current and planned online secure systems and identify means of promoting safer online behaviour. Dates tbc Enterprise Digital Forensics: As globalisation and the Internet have led to increasing integration, the opportunities for unauthorised exploitation have also grown. You'll develop competencies for constructing plans to capture and analyse data for an investigation of potentially abnormal activity. Unit leader: Dr Michael Jones Dates 13-15 July 2017 Information Assurance: Evaluate issues to improve assurance and risk management. You'll evaluate human factors relevant to information assurance plans, and understand the roles of accreditation, compliance and governance in information assurance. Unit leader: Dr Christopher Richardson Dates 10-12 Nov 2016 Security Event & Incident Management: Incident management capability means managing computer security events and incidents. Lectures and seminars in this unit will capture the concepts of event logging and collection. You'll learn to define policies, processes, procedures, roles and responsibilities and understand the issues of lead implementation of ISO 27001. Dates tbc Security by Design: Security must be addressed as early as possible when building a system or planning organisational change. However, security never seems to be a driving concern when engaging in innovation. When security is addressed, we discover how hard building security in really is. In this unit, you'll have an opportunity to build security into the design and specification of secure systems, and the broader socio-technical context these fall into. Unit leader: Dr Shamal Faily Dates 16-18 Mar 2017 Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for MSc Cyber Security & Human Factors. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.